Synodic month length 29.81 days

Length of current 333 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 33 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2026. It is 1 minute longer than next lunation 334 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 14 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 17 December 2026 Thursday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠159.4°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠159.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠184.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

6 days after point of apogee on 11 December 2026 at 06:46 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 24 December 2026 at 08:30 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 387 416 km

Moon after ascending node

2 days after its ascending node on 14 December 2026 at 13:04 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 27 December 2026 at 07:55 in ♌ Leo.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

7 days after previous South standstill on 9 December 2026 at 15:27 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.602°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.620° in the next northern standstill on 23 December 2026 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini.